"KanataSZ, Peugeot-lover in distress" (kanatasz)
05/01/2016 at 22:47 • Filed to: None
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"KanataSZ, Peugeot-lover in distress" (kanatasz)
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The one that started it all - the 1999 Subaru Impreza Brighton wagon.
My first love, my first car.
To end up finding this incredible deal I first sifted through the local classifieds for weeks on end, doing a small bit of research on the cars in the classifieds.
I had it reduced to a Passat VR6 or this beauty right here. It was a very tough decisions but I decided to go for the one-owner, full service records, low rust Impreza pictured here.
It was an excellent car, it drove amazing and it was my first car ever - and manual too!
What were the cons? Fuel filler neck was so rusty it would leak, it needed new quarters, the passenger door was so dented in you couldn’t lower the window and you didn’t have a door handle, and the hatch was dented in.
Honestly, for $700 it couldn’t get better than this!
What happened to it? Wasn’t allowed to get a car before I finished high school, parents took it away and scrapped it (because I wasn’t able to go and register it).
You lived at Standard Auto Wreckers for a couple months, and someone took your OEM square fog-lights (super rare) and bezels. It’s a shame we didn’t get to spend more time together - best of luck in your new life form as a chinese barbecue.
Birddog
> KanataSZ, Peugeot-lover in distress
05/06/2016 at 23:53 |
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You lost $700 in the end? That’s just wrong.
gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
> KanataSZ, Peugeot-lover in distress
05/07/2016 at 10:38 |
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I had a similar story with a ZR2 blazer. My parents had a fit when I brought it home. But somehow the managed to negotiate a “return” to the guy I bought it from so I didn’t lose money over it.
I’m still of a mind that a driveable chassis doesn’t belong in wrecking yards. Last time I was there, the wrecker near me had a Samara with a smashed windshield and a dented fender, but pretty well complete, cleanish engine bay, tires with air in them, looked like it had been driven to the spot and parallel parked. It gave me a severe sad.
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KanataSZ, Peugeot-lover in distress
> Birddog
05/14/2016 at 22:05 |
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Quite so! I miss that car, could have been an excellent daily. Loved Subaru Impreza 1st gens from there-on.